Excavation vs Macroblock - What's the difference?
excavation | macroblock |
(uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
(countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
(countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
(countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
(uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
(countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
(signal processing, video compression) A block of adjacent pixels, typically a rectangular 16×16 block
(archaeology) An area of a dig where there are multiple adjacent block excavations
* {{quote-book, 2003, David L. Carlson, chapter=Figuring Out "What Happened in the Middle Archaic?", Theory, Method, and Practice in Modern Archaeology
, passage=In 1975 the macroblock area was stepped back so that a smaller block excavation could extend below Horizon 8.}}
As nouns the difference between excavation and macroblock
is that excavation is (uncountable) the act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass while macroblock is (signal processing|video compression) a block of adjacent pixels, typically a rectangular 16×16 block.excavation
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